Autoscopy Assignment

The assignment this week was to make an autoscopy which included choosing a photo and transforming it into anything creative having to do with how we see ourselves. I started with the picture of me seen on the bottom. I used the masking tool to cut myself out and I applied different filters and distortions as well. I tried to keep the color scheme, especially for me, light and colorful to reflect good energy and maintain the bright tone of the image. I also added a smoke cartoon above my head to represent my mind always thinking and being in the clouds, while keeping the lighting consistent with the original photo. Within the smoke bubble, I added two more pictures of myself from when I went skydiving to act as a border of an eye, with another picture of my face to act as the pupil. I choose these photos because they represent adventure and happiness and them being made into an eye symbolizes the lens I try to view life through. The background I found off of Pinterest, and I changed the coloring as well as made it look like it was made from oil paint. The vision I had was leaning more towards surrealism and to represent passivity and going with the flow. To me, the background represents randomness and the endless possibilities that are involved in life. Adding all these layers together, I tried to make the image feel like a visual map of my inner world, showing joy and desire for fun within and despite uncertainty.